Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.


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JOSEPH O'NEILL
Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.
TIM O'BRIEN
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE
There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a ...
STEWART O'NAN
We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those ...
TIM O'BRIEN
It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero.
TIM O'BRIEN
Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will ...
RONAN O'BRIEN
A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks mo...
P.J. O'ROURKE
Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ...
PAT O'SHEA
You're the fire burning inside of me.
KELVIN O'RALPH
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis...
PETER O'TOOLE
I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ...
JENNY O'CONNELL
If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
CONAN O'BRIEN
Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio...
MARY O'MALLEY
What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he...
HEATHER O'NEILL
I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we sha...
DANIEL O'MALLEY
The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu...
STEWART O'NAN
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ...
P.J. O'ROURKE
The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!
JENNIFER O'NEILL
Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable...
DENIS O'BRIEN
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P.J. O'ROURKE
I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve...
P.J. O'ROURKE
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
FLANN O'BRIEN
When all else fails, there's always delusion.
CONAN O'BRIEN
You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e...
JENNIFER O'NEILL
The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev...
JOSEPH O'NEILL
I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard...
R.B. O'BRIEN
You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,...
TIM O'BRIEN
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer...
TIM O'BRIEN
I was a coward. I went to the war.
TIM O'BRIEN
To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ...
TIM O'BRIEN
Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat...
TIM O'BRIEN
Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein...
TIM O'BRIEN
Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y...
TIM O'BRIEN
It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s...
TIM O'BRIEN
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem...
TIM O'BRIEN
It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,...
TIM O'BRIEN
He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ...
TIM O'BRIEN
And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for....
TIM O'BRIEN
What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
TIM O'BRIEN
It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d...
TIM O'BRIEN
you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
TIM O'BRIEN
But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the w...
TIM O'BRIEN
War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and...
TIM O'BRIEN
I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
TIM O'BRIEN
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y...
TIM O'BRIEN
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo...
TIM O'BRIEN